RFC 5789: PATCH Method for HTTP

Several applications extending the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) require a feature to do partial resource modification. The existing HTTP PUT method only…

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Outgoing relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Normative reference — RFC 3864: Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields
Informative reference — RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 4918: HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)

Incoming relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7644: System for Cross-domain Identity Management: Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7237: Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8072: YANG Patch Media Type
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8895: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Incremental Updates Using Server-Sent Events (SSE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7396: JSON Merge Patch
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9530: Digest Fields
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6902: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7351: A Media Type for XML Patch Operations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7386: JSON Merge Patch